Bug#657515: "Nonprinting characters" has no effect in libreoffice-writer.

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:49:05PM +0400, jaakov@ro.ru wrote:
> Package: libreoffice-writer
> Version: 1:3.4.5-2
> Severity: grave

Ah, right. Would you please read the definiton of bug severities?:

http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities:
grave
    makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package.

libreoffice-writer is not unuusable, it is not data loss and
it for sure is not a security bug.

> How-to-reproduce:
> 1. Start libreoffice.
> 2. Create a new text document.
> 3. Type in "a b".
> 4a. Press Ctrl+F10 or
> 4b. Choose the menu entry "View -> Nonprinting Characters" or
> 4c. Click on the toolbar button with the vertically mirrored IP.
> 5. Observe that the space between a and b is not displayed as a dot.
> Actually, the view does not change.
> 
> The same happens if we had inserted Tab, Enter, nonbreakable space,
> etc. instead of the usual space.

Maybe it could be argued ro be important, but *shrugs* I'll set it to normal.
Severity inflation does not help. Seriously.

Try what Jack suggested (see my other mail=, please and report back.

Regards,

Rene